Monthly Archives: March 2010

Fear, Excitement and the Unknown

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We have been looking at all kinds of property listings and trying to imagine living at them. Its tough because pictures just don’t do anything justice. When I find a listing that I know we could afford and try to picture myself moving and living there….I get some mixed feelings. The only way I can describe it is that this is “life”. I am feeling life. I am not used to that.

I have spent most of my working life (10yrs) in front of a computer screen. I think it has screwed with my emotions/perceptions quite a bit. I’ve lived a comfortable life. When I think about moving to Puerto Rico I have no clue what so ever what it will be like and I am not used to that. Its exciting!

I am used to knowing what the weather will be, how long my drive will take, what my day will consist of, what I will eat for lunch/dinner, what time I’ll go to bed and what time it will all start again the next day. It must be what my dog’s life is like in some ways.

I got some pictures of a property that is for sale, here is one of them:

Sleeping off the side of a cliff scares the living crap out of me when I think about it. LoL It seems that a lot of places are built like this in PR. Something about it seems unsettling in my mind. I want to go inside and jump around to make sure its sturdy! A friend of mine brought this up to me when I sent him the picture. He lives the same life for the most part that I do so maybe we are just fraidy cats?

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Any Advice on Puerto Rican Mortgage Companies?

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When we go down to Puerto Rico for this trip, we would also like to get a few things lined up with a Puerto Rican mortgage company. We had looked into Pentagon Federal when we had the offer in on the place in Lares, but they charge even just to fill out the application. Are there any other mortgage companies you might recommend? From reading CA2PR’s blog, it sounds like Banco Popular is not very good to work with even though it is the largest bank on the island. How is Western Bank? Any other mortgage companies that you trust?

This is one thing that makes moving so far away so difficult. We have a lot of connections here including a few friends in the mortgage industry. Their banks are national, but for some reason they don’t extend to Puerto Rico -poo. Anything we should be aware of that is different in the mortgage process? I would like to get preapproved and lined up before we leave from the trip. Another thing to do!! So much to cram into one week! We must keep telling ourselves, this is a property trip, not a vacation, but somehow it’s not sinking in! 🙂

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50’s Puerto Rican Souvenir to Wall Art

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A while ago when I was searching the Internet for an image for the post I wrote about the 1950s and 60s in Puerto Rico and the Mad Men style of advertising, I found this really cool old 50’s Puerto Rican Souvenir handkerchief. I could just imagine it belonging to some sophisticated lady back in those days. So I sent the link to Britton and he just blew me off. So I forgot about it. Then at Christmastime, I found this little envelope in the mail. We don’t really exchange gifts too much, so I just thought it was a letter or bill, and so I opened it in front of Britton. It was the hanky! Britton said he had to act like he didn’t care, so I wouldn’t know that he was getting it for me. It made me feel so happy. How something so small could mean so much…

Anyway, I wanted to get it framed so we would have it as wall art. It took us forever to find a frame that would fit it, but finally we found a square frame for it. Last night we put it together. I think it turned out really well and I am excited to hang it in our house in Puerto Rico (when we have one that is) 🙂

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